{"id":2644,"slug":"rohwer-relocation-center-rohwer-arkansas","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Rohwer is the '42-45 — the '8,475' that's the peak, the '16,000' that's the Arkansas. The 'cemetery' is the left — the '24 headstones' that's the concrete, the 'tank monument' that's the 442nd. The 'tarpaper' is the barracks — the '500 acres' that's the A-frames, the 'barbed wire' that's the perimeter.","The 'Japanese' is the '64% — the 'citizens' that's the American, the 'Executive 9066' that's the order. The 'delta' is the swampy — the 'tax-delinquent' that's the acquired, the '110 miles' that's the Little Rock. Rohwer is the last — the 'Nov 30' that's the closed, the 'NHL' that's the cemetery.","The file keeps Rohwer: the 1942-45 camp, the 8,475 peak, the cemetery monuments, and the 64% citizens.","Rohwer is the archive's Arkansas file — the incarcerated citizens."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Rohwer is the archive's Arkansas file — the delta's injustice.","A cemetery keeps its names — the file's suggestion being that Rohwer's hold is the forgotten: the '8,475' that's the peak, the '64%' that's the citizens, and the 'tank' that's the 442nd."]}],"name":"Rohwer Relocation Center","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","WWII"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"The camp where 8,000 Japanese Americans were held—and George Takei grew up.","full_desc":"Rohwer Relocation Center is a site in Rohwer, Arkansas. The camp where 8,000 Japanese Americans were held—and George Takei grew up. The presence its accounts keep returning to is the one they call the rohwer incarcerees. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Rohwer","county":null,"state":"Arkansas","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":null,"lon":null,"coord_kind":null,"status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"AR batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":2192,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The incarcerees are said to be remembered at the cemetery. The Rohwer incarcerees is the name the reports keep returning to. The reports at Rohwer Relocation Center are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The account appears in 'Rohwer'. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":"The Rohwer incarcerees","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Rohwer","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohwer_War_Relocation_Center","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":2193,"type":"HISTORICAL_LEGEND","description":"The incarceration is documented history. The site in Rohwer, Arkansas gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The press reported it; the reporting is documented, the phenomenon isn't. The report is preserved in sources like 'Rohwer'. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","evidence_label":"Media reported","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Rohwer","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohwer_War_Relocation_Center","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The camp ran 1942-45; Takei’s childhood there is documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'Rohwer'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1942","date_end":"1945","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Rohwer","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohwer_War_Relocation_Center","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The incarcerees are said to be remembered at the cemetery. Rohwer Relocation Center's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Rohwer'. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Rohwer","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohwer_War_Relocation_Center","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Rohwer incarcerees","claimed_identity":"The Rohwer incarcerees","verified":null,"summary":"The incarcerees are said to be remembered at the cemetery. The presence goes by The Rohwer incarcerees. Rohwer Relocation Center in Rohwer, Arkansas carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The account appears in 'Rohwer'. A named spirit outlasts an anonymous one; the file's name is The Rohwer incarcerees.","behavior":"The incarcerees are said to be remembered at the cemetery.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Rohwer","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohwer_War_Relocation_Center","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Rohwer","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohwer_War_Relocation_Center","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}